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CLIMBER'S GUIDE TO THE CASCADE AND OLYMPIC MOUNTAINS Fred Beckey 1949 1st edition Fine [not signed]
By Beckey, Fred
Price: $250.00


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New York, AAC, 1949, 1st edition. 271 pp, photos, maps. This is a 
small hardcover, in excellent condition.  Only 6 1/2 inches by 4 1/2 inches. There is no edge wear, no internal or external writing or marks, it is clean and Fine. Endpaper writing is in pencil. Really looks like new. It is not signed by Fred Beckey or anybody else.

This Cascades guidebook was the first book by Fred Beckey, one of the greatest American mountaineers. He was only 26 when he wrote it!  It is now scarce and one of the most collectible American mountaineering books.  

Fred Beckey

Fred Beckey started climbing at age 12, and climbing seriously while still a teenager. This was in the 1930s when hardly anybody was climbing.

In the late 1940s, he asked The Mountaineers of Seattle to publish his first climbing guidebook Climber's Guide to the Cascade and Olympic Mountains of Washington. They turned him down, and in 1949 the American Alpine Club agreed to print a few hundred copies.

It was so successful it was reprinted in 1953, and then revised and updated in 1961.  

beckey continued writing books, most notably the revised Cascade Guide as the Cascade Alpine Guide in 3 volumes, 1973, 1977, and 1981. Much updated, it is now the definitive three-volume description of the Cascades from the Columbia River to the Fraser River, still published by The Mountaineers in a large sturdy softcover.. 

Fred Beckey's Books:
  • Fred Beckey's 100 Favorite North American Climbs Patagonia  (Yes, that Patagonia)  2011 Thick & Tall Hc

  • Range of Glaciers: The Exploration and Survey of the Northern Cascade Range  2003 Thick Hc 

  • Cascade Alpine Guide 3 volumes 1973–-present, 1st, 2nd, 3rd editions

  • Columbia River to Stevens Pass 1973--present 1st, 2nd, 3rd editions

  • Stevens Pass to Rainy Pass 1973–-present, 1st, 2nd, 3rd editions

  • Rainy Pass to Fraser River 1973–present, 1st, 2nd, 3rd editions 

  • Challenge of the North Cascades 1969, Hc & Pbk 

  • Mount McKinley: Icy Crown of North America 1993, 1999 Hc & Pbk

  • Mountains of North America Bonanza Books 1986 Lg Hc reprint. 

  • Mountains of North America. Sierra Club, 1982 Lg Hc 1st ed  

  • Darrington and Index Rock Climbing Guide 1976 Pbk

  • Guide to Leavenworth Rock-Climbing Areas 1965 Pbk with Eric Bjornstad

  • Climber's Guide to the Cascade and Olympic Mountains of Washington American Alpine Club, 1949, revised edition 1953, 1961



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